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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

12/08/19 The Gift That Changes Everything

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

Ascension

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🗓️ 8 December 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent.

To be gripped by God is not supposed to be comfortable.

The Prophet says that the great gift of the Spirit is the fear of the Lord. But what is it?

Mass Readings from December 8, 2019:
Isaiah 11:1-10
Psalms 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17
Romans 15:4-9

Matthew 3:1-12

Transcript

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0:00.0

So I've been thinking about presence obviously goes you know it's coming up

0:03.5

And I was thinking about my favorite presence like I've ever gotten in my life

0:08.5

And it's funny because when I was Ken

0:10.0

I remember getting Optimus Pine from my birthday and that was the best thing ever Optimus Pine is from Transformers for those of you who are not

0:16.1

cultured

0:18.6

Even one of my favorite presence, but it wasn't wasn't the best and then I went about fifth grade

0:22.7

I got a I got a braked for Christmas. I got a bike. It was awesome

0:25.6

It was the greatest thing because I had up to that point only a ridden hand me down bikes and my older sisters

0:30.3

I wrote the girls bikes

0:31.2

So the banana seat with the girl seat with the whole thing it was my first chance

0:34.6

I remember getting this bike when I was at fifth grade and being so excited and then realizing I live in Minnesota

0:39.1

So I will not be able to ride this bike for the next five months

0:41.4

So that's fine. It was a great gift when it wasn't like the best gift ever

0:45.2

There's so many I've got a chemistry set once and I'm so excited to get this chemistry set because I'm like I am either going to be

0:51.8

Batman or Sherlock Holmes and both of them got chemistry sets as kids

0:55.8

So like that's how I'm gonna train. This is the beginning

0:57.7

But even that like I figured out I found out pretty quickly that I don't like

1:02.0

Chemistry and so I'm like what was the best gift I was thinking about this

1:05.8

I was actually I brought it to prayer prayer about whatever. Um, what was the best gift I ever got and I realized um

1:12.4

It was a speaking spell

1:14.4

You know what a speaking spell is speaking spell is basically a little uh

1:18.7

I don't know it looks like a tablet and it would ask you questions about how to spell words and you type it in and you get it right or you get it wrong and

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